Post by Jean Lemieux on Aug 11, 2016 17:53:21 GMT -5
I got this fan a month ago. It was in pretty bad condition. It's now all restored to it's original glossy white colour. It's my first Quatre Saisons older than 1980 and my first one to use a J-hook mounting. Before the 1980's, their fans were made in Hong Kong instead of Taiwan so they look pretty different from the 1980-1987 models and are much heavier. This one is probably 9 kilos. The early 1980's version of this fan is 7 kilos at most.
It was originally pretty scratched up and yellowed. The motor was very stiff. It could not work on the lowest speed and not even very much on medium. On high it was making a loud clicking sound. I removed the cap in the middle of the motor and oiled it from the bottom bearing and and it didn't took long for this to make a big difference. The noise was completely gone and it was already a lot more loose. Now it can work on all speeds and has a perfect low speed with the right controller. With my 3-speed Lutron slider I get about 45/125/185. A very nice slow low speed and a perfect medium. Although the motor is rated at 0,96 amps (120 volts), the high speed on this fan seems like it's meant to be not too crazily fast like most of fans of this kind. It's probably because it's the same motor as on the 90 cm version and the pitch on the blades is pretty good. It stills moves a very good amount of air and it's cool to have a usable high speed on a fan like this. Most of fans made in Hong Kong have insane high speeds.
The sticker on the canopy was completely faded but I could still see the traces of the old letters on it so I traced them to their original proportions and colours of blue and orange using permanent markers. It was difficult to draw on a surface that is not flat at all so the result is not as good and I would have liked it to be and because the original sticker is a little glossy it didn't made a good finish for the big Quatre on the left but still I wanted to take the opportunity to reuse the original sticker and exact letters shapes and proportions.
Here it is in motion and you get to see an upclose of the sticker:
As you can see this is the version with the slightly conic motor. For the ones older than 1980 is also a version with a flat motor with a small circle in the center of the motor as I posted before in my sightings.
I might have a before restoration picture somewhere that I can post.
Enjoy.
It was originally pretty scratched up and yellowed. The motor was very stiff. It could not work on the lowest speed and not even very much on medium. On high it was making a loud clicking sound. I removed the cap in the middle of the motor and oiled it from the bottom bearing and and it didn't took long for this to make a big difference. The noise was completely gone and it was already a lot more loose. Now it can work on all speeds and has a perfect low speed with the right controller. With my 3-speed Lutron slider I get about 45/125/185. A very nice slow low speed and a perfect medium. Although the motor is rated at 0,96 amps (120 volts), the high speed on this fan seems like it's meant to be not too crazily fast like most of fans of this kind. It's probably because it's the same motor as on the 90 cm version and the pitch on the blades is pretty good. It stills moves a very good amount of air and it's cool to have a usable high speed on a fan like this. Most of fans made in Hong Kong have insane high speeds.
The sticker on the canopy was completely faded but I could still see the traces of the old letters on it so I traced them to their original proportions and colours of blue and orange using permanent markers. It was difficult to draw on a surface that is not flat at all so the result is not as good and I would have liked it to be and because the original sticker is a little glossy it didn't made a good finish for the big Quatre on the left but still I wanted to take the opportunity to reuse the original sticker and exact letters shapes and proportions.
Here it is in motion and you get to see an upclose of the sticker:
As you can see this is the version with the slightly conic motor. For the ones older than 1980 is also a version with a flat motor with a small circle in the center of the motor as I posted before in my sightings.
I might have a before restoration picture somewhere that I can post.
Enjoy.
